So is possession peyne Of pens and of nobles, To alle hem that it holdeth, Til hir tail be plukked.
I am ocupied eche day, Haly-day and oother, With ydel tales at the ale, And outher while at chirche; Goddes peyne and his passion Ful selde thenke I on it.
By love and by lernyng Of my lyvynge, in truthe, 6880 Broughte me fro bitter peyne Ther no biddyng myghte.
Long was the sobbing and the bitter peyne 1065 Er that hir woful hertes mighte cesse; Greet was the pitee for to here hem pleyne, Thurgh whiche pleintes gan hir wo encresse.
Therfore, al the whyle that a man hath in him the peyne of concupiscence, it is impossible but he be tempted somtyme, and moeved in his flesh to sinne.
But peraventure he hath swich hevinesse and swich wratthe to us-ward, by-cause of our offence, / that he wole enioyne us swich a peyne as we mowe nat here ne sustene.
Than peyne I me to strecche forth the nekke, 395 And est and west upon the peple I bekke, As doth a dowve sitting on a berne.
And this suffred oure lord Iesu Crist for man up-on the croys, where-as ther was no part of his body free, withouten greet peyne and bitter passion.
Right so fareth thepeyne of helle; it is lyk deeth for the horrible anguissh, and why?
My sone, thy tonge sholdestow restreyne At alle tyme, but whan thou doost thy peyne 330 To speke of god, in honour and preyere.
O lord, the peyne I dide hem and the wo, Ful giltelees, by goddes swete pyne!
And I shal preve," quod Pees, "Hir peyne moot have ende, And from wo into wele Mowe wenden at the laste.
But wolde Love do so I might Have fully Ioye of hir so bright, My peyne were quit me richely.
To worship no wight by aventure May come, but-if he peyne endure.
And first of o thing warne I thee, That peyneand gret adversitee 2010 He mot endure, and eek travaile, That shal me serve, withoute faile.
This is to seyne, I wol be youres ever; Though ye me slee by Crueltee, your fo, Algate my spirit shal never dissever 115 Fro your servyse, for any peyne or wo.
Love holdith his heest to me right wele, Whan peynehe seide I shulde fele.
Thus Bialacoil, of gentilnesse, With alle his peyne and besinesse, Hath shewed me, only of grace, 3625 The estres of the swote place.
They don not wel, so mote I go, That taken such almesse so, But if they have som privelege, 6625 That of the peynehem wol allege.
The night shalt thou contene so, Withoute rest, in peyne and wo; If ever thou knewe of love distresse, Thou shalt mowe lerne in that siknesse.
For who so kissing may attayne, Of loves peyne hath, soth to sayne, The beste and most avenaunt, And ernest of the remenaunt.
And eek I counseile thee, y-wis, The God of Love hoolly foryet, 3245 That hath thee in sichpeyne set, And thee in herte tormented so.
And that suche paymentis be made content bethout delaie or nede of[167] long and grete pursute, upon suche a resonable peyneas the cause shalle require it.
Peyne the not eche croked to redresse, In trust of hire that turneth as a balle,[200] Grete rest stant in lytel besynesse.
What shulde I speke more queynte, 245 Or peyne me my wordes peynte, To speke of love?
For lat see now what man that lover be, *Wol doon so strong a peyne for love as she.
My Lord of Caunterbury takith grete peyne up on hym daily, and will write un to yow the certeynte of suche tidings as falle; and shuld have doon or this tyme, saf for that he wolde knowe an end of the matter.
The Quene is a grete and strong labourid woman, for she spareth noo peyne to sue hire thinges to an intent and conclusion to hir power.
Thus Pandarus, with alle peyne and wo, Made him to dwelle; and at the woukes ende, Of Sarpedoun they toke hir leve tho, 500 And on hir wey they spedden hem to wende.
Thow hast here maad an argument, for fyn, How that it sholde a lasse peyne be Criseyde to for-goon, for she was myn, And live in ese and in felicitee.
This hope al clene out of his herte fledde, He nath wher-on now lenger for to honge; But for the peyne him thoughte his herte bledde, 1200 So were his throwes sharpe and wonder stronge.
For trewely he swoor hir, as a knight, That ther nas thing with whiche he mighte hir plese, That he nolde doon his peyne and al his might 115 To doon it, for to doon hir herte an ese.
Soth is, that whan they gonne first to mete, So gan the peyne hir hertes for to twiste, That neither of hem other mighte grete, 1130 But hem in armes toke and after kiste.
Thow hast here maad an argument, for fyn, How that it sholde lasse peyne be Criseyde to for-goon, for she was myn, And live in ese and in felicitee.
But now thou mayst wel seen to what ende I am comen for myne innocence; I receive peyneof fals felonye for guerdon of verray vertu.
And also look on shrewes, that ben the contrarie party of goode men, how greet peyne felawshipeth and folweth hem!
And whan ony man dyethe in the contree, thei brennen his body in name of penance, to that entent, that he suffre no peyne in erthe, to ben eten of wormes.
And he thinkethe, that the more peyne and the more tribulacioun, that thei suffren for love of here god, the more ioye thei schulle have in another world.
And no Barber was to “entyce or envegyll any mans servant from him upon peyne of forfeyting for a fyne xiij{s.
In dying panges he gryp'd his throte more stronge, 535 And from their sockets started out his eyes; And from his mouthe came out his blameless tonge; And bothe in peyne and anguishe eftsoon dies.
His evenings he devoted to gambling and to calls in a spirit of generous festivity upon the peyne d'oro girls in the more remote side-streets of the town.
Certys 3528 a gret p{ar}ty of þe peyne to shrewes shulde ben allegged {and} releued.
I receiue peyne of fals felonie in gerdou{n} of verray vertue.
Syr, I be cech yow to tak the peyne for me at thys tyme, and I xall do yow that servys that lyth in me, by the grace of Jesu, Ho preserve you.
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